Professor Charles Lesher at SAC has received a grant of DKK 1 991 999.00 from the Villum Fonden to build a physical apparatus for simulating the conditions on superhot exoplanets.

Together with Conny Aerts and Roger Ulrich professor Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard as the first Dane was issued the highly prestigious Kavli Prize for astrophysics by Harald V, King of Norway.

For more about the Kavli Prize: see the previous news-update on the SAC website.

Today the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi has published the names of the researchers that are to receive the highly prestigious Kavli Prize for 2022.

The new memebers are Professor Bo Barker Jørgensen, Dept. of Biology and Professor Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, SAC. We congratulate!